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| [quote="RonBee"]Future perfect:
thank you. |
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| [quote="jiz07"][quote="RonBee"]Future perfect:
The fishing boats [not go] out if the wind keeps blowing so strongly. I wrote The fishing boats are not going out if the wind keeps blowing so strongly. Is it Okay? :oops: |
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Do you think you will have completed your work in time for dinner? |
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things change in the next few month, the company is going to be losing money all year long. is it ok like this also. |
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| I'd say no- use this: will have been losing This shows that something is partially complete (by filling the time period given), while being unfinished. 'going to be losing' doesn't work, IMO, as it doesn't carry the idea of a stage of completion. |
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